Steve Boren in Kansas City is the VPP-GNA contact. They just held a VJP test in MO along with a breed show. They brought the VPP president from Germany to judge. I know they imported a qualified stud. Not sure just how many qualified females they actually have and I've been a member since its inception in N. America. I'm also a member of NAPPA.

I have a VPP bitch Czarina Von Oberland and as part of the deal with the breeders in Germany we ran her in the only test that they had in Canada. We were told that she had a very good score. That is remarkable because I trained her and had never seen the test before in my life.

To the volunteers who put on the test I congratulate, the work they put in plus their own money was impressive.

One clever member, some time ago commented on a different thread, "that if you breed dogs for a different purpose, you soon will have different dogs" I wish I remembered who said that. Reena is certainly different than any dog I've ever trained. While still a pup she jumped a wt fawn, ran it down and killed it, then tried to retrieve the small deer. She has an extra gear over the North American dogs, and she is a bit taller.

When training her she is not very demonstrative and I'm never sure that I'm getting through to her.

I didn't bring her to the wilds of Alberta to breed VPP dogs but to expand our gene pool. Her pups out of Blitsgent's Bodie (112/204) will be running NA this year.

It could be me, but she is smart but takes longer to train. There is nothing wrong with the dog it is just taking me longer to get on the same page. We are running sight blinds now and she is enjoying the work but she has come into heat again and I have to train her when my friend's dog isn't around.

Densa44I'm not sure you've seen enough PP from North America or Europe to say she has an extra gear. She may have an extra gear over your N. American PP. Has Reena ran HZP in addition to VJP? She is only 18 months old now.

No she hasn't and I'm not sure she ever will, this is a big piece of real estate that we share and I think heard at the previous "test" the next one would be in Nova Scotia, for me it may as well be on the moon.

There is another German PP in Penn who is running in the IV this year, I may breed him to Rena, they are not related.